“Van der Kolk's research on trauma and the nervous system underpins Brown's understanding of why shame is not merely cognitive. She has cited it in her Dare to Lead work to explain why vulnerability practices that ignore embodied experience tend to fail in organizations.”
“On episodes about anxiety and emotional dysregulation, Robbins points to van der Kolk to explain why talking about a problem often isn't enough. The book reframes many of her listeners' struggles — procrastination, people-pleasing — as nervous-system responses rather than character flaws.”